Reprising my list of entertainers over 90 years old. I helped keep all but four of last year’s aged picks alive for another full year. In 2022 we lost the last of my over-100 picks (Marsha Hunt) and Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, and Estelle Harris gave me a few points, but I’m hoping for a low score again this year to avoid losing any more of these great talents. (Well, I wouldn’t be terribly sad to see Clint Eastwood go.)
As always, I’m playing the odds, not going for points. The maximum I could earn, if all of these wonderful actors dropped dead in early January, is 84. This is the youngest average batch since I started playing the Death Pool in 2017, and the first time that I don’t have anyone over 100 on my list. Eva Marie Saint is only 98, and the youngest, Barbara Eden, is 91.
They’re listed in descending age.
Eva Marie Saint
Dick van Dyke
June Lockhart
Tony Bennett
Mel Brooks
William Daniels
Harry Belafonte
Bob Newhart
Robert Wagner
Clint Eastwood
Tippi Hedren
Gene Hackman
Gena Rowlands
Alternates:
James Earl Jones
William Shatner
Barbara Eden